Prosperity in Northwest South Dakota shows strong farming wealth
Report from Sept 30 notes South Dakota leading per capita wealth for sixth year, with corn and cattle driving gains. Farm values total about 140 million dollars for 1903, bank deposits rising from 14 to 32 million, Mitchell Corn Palace to be featured in St Louis expo, and Mitchell developing city infrastructure while capital moves proposal advances for Nov 1904.
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Northwest
South Dakota
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry
Missouri River
Black Hills
South Thikota
Ipswich
Lee & Prentis
Vermillion
S. D
Mitchell
Mitchell Corn Palace
St. Louis
Stata
Pierra
Missourii River
Pierre
Novemb
St. Louis Mer
Young Couples Urged to Time Age To Dodge First Quarrel
A Memphis Tennessee News item quotes guidance urging young married people to accept certain age differences to avoid early disputes, claiming it leads to lasting happiness. The note reflects era sentiments on marriage harmony.
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Memphis
Tenn
The Handicapped Health Paradox in Office Life
A satirical critique of urban office culture arguing that many so called invalids are not sick but overemphasize health. The piece mocks desk bound workers with health obsessed habits and extols the stamina of true laborers, suggesting health can hinder performance and success. It cites trainers and patent medicines while riffing on the old rhyme about being late to rise.
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Cigar Store
Officeitis
Newyork
Fine Art of Cooking From a Yankee Kitchen Sample
A New York Sun view describes how a single plain Yankee cook turns limited kitchen space into a versatile menu. By deftly blending bones and scraps, soups become vegetable soups, and a single joint yields roasts, varied meats, and fish with quick sauces. Desserts blur lines between fruit cake and plum pudding as the cook conjures many dishes from few ingredients.
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New York Sun
Postpone Old Age Says Metchnikoff Through Diet and Science
Dr Elie Metchnikoff at Pasteur Institute argues old age is a medical problem caused by intestinal pests and inherited disease. He proposes delaying aging with diet reforms and avoiding heavy meat while noting death may come as an unnatural sleep, potentially after a full day’s work.
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Elie Metchnikoff
Pasteur Institute
Metchnikoff
United States
England
Collier's Weekly
Doan's Kidney Pills Benefit Urbana Man
Veteran Joshua Heller of Urbana Illinois reports kidney trouble relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills from Cunningham Bros Champaign. He credits the pills with curing back pain and preventing attacks, endorsing the product and noting a free trial offer and nationwide mail availability. Price is 60 cents per box with medical advice free and confidential.
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Bright
Doan
Joshua Heller
South Walnut Street
Urbana
Ill
Cunningham Bros
Champaign
Dean
Heller
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Bulffalo
N.Y
Leaves as a windbound boat in a MacDonald verse
A literary fragment quoting George MacDonald about a wind driven leaf like boat moving toward the sea and a wedding wind that binds two souls though it drifts and shelters the future. The cadence imitates a poem about longing, motion, and union.
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Circling Cove
George MacDonald
Eighteen Inch Rat Boards Breidablik on Arrival
The Breidablik, a Norwegian steamship, greeted a famed eighteen inch rat, pet of Capt. Paulsen. The creature barge to the front during manifest inspection, prompting Boarding Officer Rauch to halt work and bargain with the rodent, a singular welcome for all visitors on board.
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Breidablik
Paulsen
Rauch
Samar
Philadelphia
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claims Universal Cure
An 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh claiming it cures a constitutional disease by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers 100 dollars for a proven failure and promotes testimonials. Sold by druggists for 75 cents with Hall's Family Pills as the best companion.
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F.J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Hall
Mosquitoes Live Through Winter Says Scientist
Scientist William Lyman Underwood notes mosquitos survive winter by hibernating in barns and cellars or living in hollow trees. They remain active again with warm weather and are seen flying before snow fully melts.
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William Lyman Underwood
Serves Long as Lawyer Ex-Congressman E. B. Taylor
Ex congressman E B Taylor of Warren who succeeded James A Garfield as representative of the old Nineteenth district in congress on the advance of Garfield to the presidency has completed fifty eight years of legal practice. He is said to have more years of activity in the profession than any other Ohio lawyer.
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E. B. Taylor
Warren
James A. Garfield
Congress
Ohio
Paris Slang Coined From Papal Death Camerlengo Theft
The death of the pope enriches Paris slang with camerlengo as a term for a policeman. The first officer called such was puzzled, then released after hours at the station. Authorities link camerlengo to the silver hammer used on the pope, but the word is now common in street quarrels with cries of Eh va dono camerlingue.
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Paris
Cogne
New York Tribune
Youngest Duke of Leinster Faces Illness at 16
The Duke of Leinster, one of England’s youngest peers and premier Irish noble, hails from the Fitzgerald family. At sixteen, he is a grandnephew of Lord Edward and once a standout at Eton, but shows signs of consumption, with measures in place to safeguard his promising future.
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Duke of Leinster
Edward
Kingdom of Ireland
Fitzgerald
Emerald Isle
Lord Edward
Eton
Remarkable local cure for female weakness in Franksville
In Franksville Wisconsin Mrs Louis Markison long plagued by female weakness reports a dramatic recovery after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. She praises the remedy saying it cured her and produced substantial improvement, noting it as the best medicine she has known.
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Franksville
Wis
Louis Markison
Pointers on why trousers are turned up in summer
A tailor explains that trouser hems are pressed turned up in summer because men wear low shoes then. Turned up hems avoid catching on shoes and keep fabric from touching the shoes, while in winter trousers are pressed turned down for different footwear.
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Leo
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